Nice one.
Most landings go
up, like the recent Beagle effort.
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A Nasa space probe has landed on Mars to seek signs that the planet was once capable of supporting life.
The six-wheeled rover Spirit parachuted on to the planet's surface at about 0435 GMT on Sunday.
The robotic spacecraft has already sent back historic images of the rocky landscape where it bounced to rest.
It will explore a crater that may once have held a lake in a three-month mission to examine rocks and search for water.
The six-minute descent to the surface was the final and most daunting leg of the seven-month voyage from Earth.
In the past, two out of three attempts to land spacecraft on the Red Planet have failed.
The European Space Agency is still searching for the missing British-built Beagle 2.
The probe was supposed to land on Mars on Christmas Day but has not yet sent back a signal to confirm it has arrived safely.
Tense wait
Such are the risks of landing on Mars that Nasa had installed a system on the rover to send back information about the descent.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3365371.stm
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/
Most landings go
up, like the recent Beagle effort.-----------------------------------------------
A Nasa space probe has landed on Mars to seek signs that the planet was once capable of supporting life.
The six-wheeled rover Spirit parachuted on to the planet's surface at about 0435 GMT on Sunday.
The robotic spacecraft has already sent back historic images of the rocky landscape where it bounced to rest.
It will explore a crater that may once have held a lake in a three-month mission to examine rocks and search for water.
The six-minute descent to the surface was the final and most daunting leg of the seven-month voyage from Earth.
In the past, two out of three attempts to land spacecraft on the Red Planet have failed.
The European Space Agency is still searching for the missing British-built Beagle 2.
The probe was supposed to land on Mars on Christmas Day but has not yet sent back a signal to confirm it has arrived safely.
Tense wait
Such are the risks of landing on Mars that Nasa had installed a system on the rover to send back information about the descent.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3365371.stm
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/
